Every commission we take on starts the same way: an hour with an architect, focused entirely on your home and what it could become.
It is a working session, not a sales call.
Book a design consultation
You bring your ideas, your frustrations and your questions. We bring judgement, and we will give you our honest view, including the things you may not want to hear.
The site - We look at your property’s characteristics, orientation, boundaries and context, and identify the constraints and the opportunities that come with them.
Your brief - We test what you have in mind against the site and against what we have seen work. Some ideas grow in this conversation. Others get replaced by better ones.
Planning - We give you a first read on the planning picture for your property: what your local authority is likely to support, and where the risks sit.
Next steps - You leave knowing whether your project is viable, roughly what it involves, and what we would do next if we were you. What you do with that is up to you.
The consultation is an hour by video call with a RIBA-registered architect, wherever you are. Working this way means we can prepare properly: send us your address and photographs in advance and we will have studied your property, its setting and its planning context before we speak. Most of our commissions involve construction budgets upwards of £200,000; if yours is smaller but genuinely ambitious, book the conversation anyway.
If the project has legs and we both want to take it further, the next stage is our pre-contract process: fourteen documents that deal with the main risks to your project one at a time, from your brief and the planning history to title, budget and legal duties, before you commit to design fees. Design begins only when the ground is solid. We will explain how it works, and what it costs, at the end of the call.